Cheney Claims No Connection Between Iraq and al Qaeda, You Silly People

Old Happy Face, Dick Cheney, is reminding us that – duh! – there was never any connection between al Qaeda and Sadam Hussein. Wow, to think we were sharing a public hallucination all that time! Cause I believed it! Every word… that Dick Cheney, er… never said.

First, let me begin to dissect this befuddling illumination by pointing out that every time I see Old Happy Face is on the news, again and again, and NOT Bush, it reinforces the strange intuition many may have shared: that Mr. Bush was never REALLY the president at all! Now that Old Happy Face is trying to clean up his presidential story, it becomes more and more obvious that Bush was faking it the whole time. The whole time! THAT’S WHY HE NEVER KNEW ANY OF THE ANSWERS. HE WASN’T ACTUALLY PRESIDENT. Whew! Glad that’s cleared up.

Moving on to the story of Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda. Here’s the money quote from CNN’s story entitled Cheney: No link between Saddam Hussein, 9/11:

“I do not believe and have never seen any evidence to confirm that [Hussein] was involved in 9/11.”

From the same story:

The former vice president said in 2004 that the evidence was “overwhelming” that al Qaeda had a relationship with Hussein’s regime in Iraq, and that media reports suggesting that the commission investigating the 9/11 attacks reached a contradictory conclusion were “irresponsible.”

“There clearly was a relationship. It’s been testified to. The evidence is overwhelming,” Cheney said at the time.

Condoleeza Rice has backpedaled from asserting that their were “ties going on between al Qaeda and Iraq,” to “No one was arguing that Saddam Hussein somehow had something to do with 9/11.”

Bush’s quotes: From this extensive list from the BBC of Bush’s assertions of a connection bewtween al Qaeda and Sadam Hussein to “No, we’ve had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with September the 11th.” September 17, 2004.

And here we find a quote from McClatchy News Service in which Cheney asserts that waterboarding at Gitmo was worthwhile because it did in fact turn up the OBVIOUS link between al Qaeda and Hussein:

Then-Vice President Dick Cheney, defending the invasion of Iraq , asserted in 2004 that detainees interrogated at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp had revealed that Iraq had trained al Qaida operatives in chemical and biological warfare, an assertion that wasn’t true.

Cheney’s 2004 comments to the now-defunct Rocky Mountain News were largely overlooked at the time. However, they appear to substantiate recent reports that interrogators at Guantanamo and other prison camps were ordered to find evidence of alleged cooperation between al Qaida and the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein — despite CIA reports that there were only sporadic, insignificant contacts between the militant Islamic group and the secular Iraqi dictatorship.

And more from an extensive chronology:

“Vice President Dick Cheney’s repeated trips to CIA headquarters in the run-up to the war for unusual, face-to-face sessions with intelligence analysts poring over Iraqi data. The pressure on the intelligence community to document the administration’s claims that the Iraqi regime had ties to al-Qaida and was pursuing a nuclear weapons capacity was ‘unremitting,’ said former CIA counterterrorism chief Vince Cannistraro, echoing several other intelligence veterans interviewed.” Additionally, CIA officials “charged that the hard-liners in the Defense Department and vice president’s office had ‘pressured’ agency analysts to paint a dire picture of Saddam’s capabilities and intentions.” [Sources: Dallas Morning News, 7/28/03; Newsweek, 7/28/03]

And even more:

Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff for then-Secretary of State Colin Powell. In it, Wilkerson wrote that the interrogation program began in April and May of 2002, and then-Vice President Cheney’s office kept close tabs on the questioning. “Its principal priority for intelligence was not aimed at preempting another terrorist attack on the U.S. but discovering a smoking gun linking Iraq and al Qaeda,” Wilkerson wrote in The Washington Note, an online political journal.

So, wow, now I’m confused. Cheney badly needed a connection so that he could, uh… deny there was a connection.

To sum up, Condi Rice, George Bush, Dick Cheney, and a gigantic Senate Intelligence report all say there was never a link between al Qaeda and Sadam Hussein. Oh yeah, and George Tenet says he was pressured to come up with any evidence linking the two so that someone, not these people, but someone elsecould invade Iraq, someone who very badly wanted to.

And not for their oil.

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2 Responses to “Cheney Claims No Connection Between Iraq and al Qaeda, You Silly People”

  1. Bluechip on June 12th, 2009 6:46 am

    Cheney’s quote clearly says that Hussein did not have anything to do with 9/11. He did not say that there was no relationship between Iraq and Al Qaida. We all know that Al Qaida was active in Iraq prior to 9/11. Quit trying to make something of this.

  2. redpill8 on July 8th, 2009 8:27 am

    Sounds like Cheney is using Orwell’s “1984″ as his guidebook. These homegrown evildoers (Cheney et al) can lie all they want, and contradict themselves, but people will just use doublethink measures when presented with incoherent and/or contradictory statements. However, for those who don’t practice doublethink, we know that the whole fricken war is a lie, and this can be proven as there is now FORENSIC EVIDENCE that the Twin Towers and Building 7 were brought down by nanothermite (a new topic to write about Bobby?). There is a ton of other evidence that would prove this same conclusion, but let’s keep it simple and just stick to the nanothermite evidence for now, because we know this material could not be created in a cave in Afghanistan.

    Regarding the art of deception: as long as there are enough stupid people who willing play pawns in the cabal’s sick little chess game, they will continue to win.

    We were born with brains. It would be nice if we would used them.

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